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Hi all guys, I live in Germany and I have discovered an interesting, yer very confusing difference in the approach to balancing beer dispensing systems. So, what I learned in the past from the draft beer quality manual is that the beer line should compensate (basically to dismantle) the...

Hi all, I wonder if anybody tried to stick to the Greg Noonan's decoction schedule variant 2 from his New Brewing Lager Beer book. There he suggests for modern modified malts the following schedule: Mash in at 55 (centigrades) for combined protein/beta amylase rest After 5 minutes pulling a...

I wanted to ask if anybody tried Summer Rye recipe from Gordon Strong's book Modern Homebrew Recipes, because I belive there is an error in the recipe. The original recipe calls for: 4.5kg two-row 1.4kg Golden Promise 1.4kg Wheat malt 0.68kg Rye malt and 57g Motueka (7.5%) all late hops...

Hi all, I have a direct fired mash tun made from a beer keg (50 liters). I am using armaflex for insulation, but the problem is when my burners are on, hot air from below is coming through the holes between the keg and its stand (holes that are already present on the keg). This hot air is...

Hi all guys, I am making my new HLT of 70L stainless steel pot. My plan is to make a wooden lid but with that idea come certain questions. If I would glue alu foil on the inner part of the lid, what kind of glue would be appropriate for it? What kind of finish would be appropriate in this...

Hi all guys, I would like to pump my mash tun a little bit, as well as my kettle by installing some inlets for recirculation and for whirlpooling. What I find available in Europe is kind of expensive. Do you have any tips on how to make this for example at home: Especially this threaded...

Hi all guys, i would like to be able to connect my immersion wort chiller with the wall of my kettle and then to plug the hoses from the outside. What is the best way to connect the chiller with the outside world? In my process i would like at put the chiller near the end of the boil and to...

Hi all guys, Last Friday I kegged my first stout on nitro. The biggest issue was that I got a lot of foam when pouring. Pint would be full of foam and it took about few minutes to reduce the foam to a normal level. I used gas 70% N and 30% CO2. Serving pressure was 32 psi. Pouring of one...

HI all guys, I am about to buy beer line which I am going to use for dispensing stout on gas. THe pressure in the keg will be 30 psi. My question is basically could I use shorter line, the same as I use to dispense my normal beers at 10 psi. I suppose stout at 1.5 or even less volumes of CO2...

Hi all guys, I would like to address a question about doing beta-glucan rest when brewing stout with more than 15% of flaked barley. By now I have seen that people put as much as 20% of flaked barley in their stout recipes and nobody suggests beta-glucan rest, although every brewing book...

Hi all guys, I am about to make a sankey keg cleaner, with magnetic valves pump and so on ... I am not sure how to choose and calculate pump requirements. Especially power, pressure and flowrate. Best and cheers

Hi all guys, last week I tried for the first time to keg my beer into sankey kegs. My setup is calculated to have pouring speed of about 10s/pint. I have 4mm beer line ... I put my beer on initial 30 psi and didn;t shake anything. After two days when tapping it, I realized that pressure...

Hi all guys, I am trying to figure out how long should one spend on returning a decoction after boiling to the main mash. What was able to find about this topic are a few fragments from Noonan's book. There he says that the decoction should be returned in the coarse of a few minutes to the...

Hi all guys, I have a few plants tettnanger cascade and magnum in my garden in Serbia. However I am not sure whether it is time or not to harvest. At the moment they look like this: What do you think. To harvest or not to?

hi all guys, yesterday I brew some kind of saison and pitched WLP 665 Flemish ale blend. Until now, 24h later, nothing happens in the carboy. Airlock is silent, no pressure is built inside. Did u also have the same experience with this blend? Cheers

Hi all guys, my cones are half dried. Is this some kind of disease?

Hi all guys, I have several times unsuccessfully tried to condition my beer in mini 5l kegs, but it never turned out to be carbonized beer. I have read that one should use about one third of the sugar dedicated for bottling. Whenever I used one third the beer was flat. Last time I used the...

Hi all guys, my hops have following problems: some small black bugs and the leaves got soe strange spots ... Any idea how to save my hops?

Hi all guys, I am about to make ca. 2x40l of lager beer. For this reason I first made 2l starter from a WP vial. Then a 10l batch using that starter. After the batch is fermented I expect to have enough yeast to ferment 40l of lager. But for the second batch of 40l of lager I planned to take...

Hi all guys, are those hops usable. I picked them up in this state... thanx